§ Mr. PETO (by Private Notice)asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty's Government have taken effective steps to prevent Germany obtaining through the Blockade via neutral countries supplies of fertilisers; and whether he can give the statistics of the imports of fertilisers into Holland and the Scandinavian countries for the first nine months of this year, as compared with the average prewar import into those countries, less exports to enemy count vies?
§ Lord R. CECILThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. With regard to the second part, the imports for the first nine months of this year were, in round numbers, 362,000 tons, as compared with a normal prewar import for the same period, less export to enemy countries, of 635,000 tons.